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Gnostic and Agnostic Breakdown

The main interest is of Agnosticism, and this by default can have some implication with Atheism and Theism.

It will be supposed that Agnosticism is about lack of knowledge or not knowing. Gnosticism will be about having knowledge or knowing. It will be supposed that to have knowledge of a claim, then that claim is Justified, True, and it is Believed.

Assume Socrates doesn’t know that the earth is flat. This is because Socrates knows that the earth isn’t flat. Socrates knowing that the earth isn’t flat implies that it is true that the earth isn’t flat. Socrates can’t know false things (but can believe false things), so Socrates doesn’t know that the earth is flat, especially because Socrates knows that the earth isn’t flat.